ICC: Retiring Players

One of the things that annoy me about ICC is that there's no way to preserve the stats of your players when they retire. So I thought we could have a thread where people can post about some of their players who are getting to that stage of their careers.

They don't have to be really awesome players - anyone at all.

I'll start with these guys, who I won't be using again after the World Cup (in which NZ, believe it or not, got knocked out in the semis - it's amazing how realistic this game can be).

Gaffaney was never anything special, but he was a useful, attacking opener who often gave us good starts. His average was boosted by a rather monstrous knock against the USA in this World Cup!

I'm going to miss Oram and Walker - they were the guts of my middle order from the start, and they've been amazing with the ball as well. But they've been declining a bit in their effectiveness, particularly their bowling.

An archive of player records is something I'd love for ICC to adopt in future versions. Its certainly a bit annoying for those wanting to post screenshots or statistically-minded when a player randomly retires and you've lost his record and statistics if you've not created a back-up save.

Funny seeing Matthew Walker (and to a lesser extent Chris Gaffaney) play so well for you - I guess they're some of those players that ICC rated rather too highly compared to their skill in real life.

in the future where we're all social justice-y Cribb can ride down the street to pick up some raw milk from Coles on a motorised esky while smoking meth, firing an RPG into the air, and carrying the case of British-import Stella he's polygamously (and privately) married alongside a genderfluid Zambian businessperson and a coke-snorting 18-year-old cyborg girl.

I'm going to miss Oram and Walker - they were the guts of my middle order from the start, and they've been amazing with the ball as well. But they've been declining a bit in their effectiveness, particularly their bowling.